tearing

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Appeared in the August 5, 2025, print edition as 'The Teenagers Tearing Up The 100-Meter Race'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 2, 2025

Tearing up when he testified earlier this month, he said he’d not only lost money but trust.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Tearing the mozzarella into irregular shapes and crushing the canned tomatoes by hand produces bits of different sizes that will bake into pleasantly varied textures in the oven.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2023

Tearing down the dams is a first step in “a new era of healing,” Bowers Cordalis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023

Tearing through wreckage near the collapsed “El,” he suddenly spotted a mass of yellow hair floating in a pool of molasses.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler